Our environment suffers from old, unreliable DNS servers. I am aware of the
importance of good DNS servers in an OS X environment and we have approached
management about updating these servers but currently we have no budget to
replace them. (Educational institute.)
Considering DNS hosting by very reputable services can be had for the
cost of a beer if you have no budget for that how about placing a
collection jar by the coffee pot? Seriously.
We occasionally have networking outages from our remote schools to the
central DNS servers or more commonly the DNS servers just stop working or
responding.
Then this is just a poor network architecture.
When this occurs our OS X workstations and network users can no
longer log into the school server.
As expected.
The workstations and the AFP servers reside in the same building
Then make the AFP server box a caching DNS resolver.
I have examined the network traffic using tcpdump and have confirmed that
the workstations are indeed making a request to the central DNS servers to
resolve the name of the server. When the DNS servers respond, everything
works. When they don't, no one can login until DNS services are restored.
Again this is expected behavaior.
My question for the group is...
Is there a simple method to make the workstations reliably find the local
server without making a request to the central DNS servers?
You should have a local, caching DNS server.
Talk to your network architect.
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-dhan
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